Von der Leyen also announced new “reparation loans” to support Ukraine, coming from Russian assets frozen in European bank accounts.

Europe will frontload €6 billion in credit, drawn from profits on frozen Russian assets, to support the production of drones for Ukraine, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has announced.

Ukrainian drones attacked the Russian Black Sea coast overnight into Tuesday morning, according to the Russian Defense Ministry and local officials.

Kyiv says it needs all its drones for the battlefield, but manufacturers insist the foreign revenue from exports would let them expand their production.

Zelenskyy's tally indicates that nearly a fifth of Russia's latest drone wave was downed by interceptors, Kyiv's emerging, cheap air defense.

An attack over the weekend set a new record for the largest single attack on Ukraine since the war began. It involved at least 800 drones and a dozen missiles, with at least some of them targeting the capital. For the first time, Russia struck a Ukrainian government building, home to Ukraine's prime minister and her cabinet.

Russia unleashed its largest-ever air assault on Ukraine early Sunday, sending more than 800 drones and 13 missiles into the country in an hours-long attack that set the main government building in Kyiv ablaze for the first time during the war,

Ukraine's crowdfunding groups say they've found the winning formula for beating Russia. But they're often overlooked.